Abstract
This article proposes that dramaturgical forays into the archive often necessitate important reckonings with ethical concerns and quandaries. Reflecting briefly on my experiences doing research for Ifa Bayeza's extraordinary trilogy of plays about the life, death and legacy of Emmett Till - The Ballad of Emmett Till, That Summer in Sumner and Benevolence - I sharpen particular focus on what an ethical engagement with the archive has looked like for me and contemplate what it means to hone a practice of ethical dramaturgy.